Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20

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cent. AZ
The ground is now thoroughly satu-
rated.
Just two years since the big food at
this place
Another rain fell Monday night and
yesterday morning.
Mrs. w. w. Cook returned from Atch-
ison last Sunday.
Buy your fresh meats at Mobiles, in
the gypsum building. ~
Sheriff Nelson's family has moved to
his farm, rear Lake City.
Tom Doran is in the Territory on a
fishing excursion.
Stock will soon be able to make a
good living on the range.
The hardware men are already receIv-
ing mowers and reapers.
Leave oIders for ice with Mr.. Ham,
delIveryman, or with a. ID. Jamison. As
Macy & Tiff opened their kiln of
brick this week. 1t was burned to per-
lection.
\ pleasant social party was given at
the residence of Mr.. L. A. McClearey
last night.
a beautiful line of Dress Prints, IN
all the new styles and shades, at w NJ.
Wheeler's. A
]. X. LaRue came in yesterday, not
to sell anything, but just to see how a
prohibition town looked.
Fred Stith came over from his farm
near Inyo yesterday. He says that not
SO much rain fell there as here.
Eli Benedict this week sowed several
bushels of clover, timothy and orchard
grass on his farm, west of town.
Ready-mixed paints, of any color de-
sired; the best in the market, at South
worth's drug store. AZ
The INDEX received this week $50
worth of new stationery and job stock.
Bring on your job work.
One of the Bristol sisters, of Topeka,
was here this week, and sold a large
number of plants and flowers.
DIR. Davis has been suffering with a
sore hand, caused by blood-poisoning
from wound that he was treating.
Just received, a new stock of extra
fine haud-turned, French kid ladies'
dress shoes. Wood & Vincent. Al
A public examination of teachers will
be held at Medicine Lodge on Satur-
day, April 80, 1887. Applicants must
be prompt.
What has become of the proposed
of the national bank ques-
ton by Hon. I. a. McNeal and Mr.. b.
L. Kies?
A. l.. Noble will get possession of
the Taber place next week. Mr.. Taber
and family will move to their farm
six miles west of Town.
DIR. Davis reports the finest girl baby
in the county for Mr.. and Mrs. Myron
Cory, six miles east of this city, born
on the 18TH inst.
G. b. Currie will grade the road from
his place to Walnut street with the city
grader, the use of the same having been
granted to him by the council.
Wanted-A man and wife to work
and take care of my place, four miles
west of Medicine Lodge. No children.
As LEE BRADLEY.
Foundry VIM. Martin, a lady's
hand satchel, containing purse with a
small sum of money. Call at this Of
flee, describe It and pay for this notice.
r. b. Clark will start, Sunday, to
Hamilton county, to look after his cat
tie. The report he has received from
there is, that no loss has occurred in
the herd this year.
Because Wichita is crazy on her real
estate boom IS no reason why Medicine
Lodge should keep prices too high for
poor man TO reach. Wichita had 10000
people before it went crazy.
l.. +. Pearson Il Go. are arranging
new record of city real estate sales and
real estate and live stock
exchanges. Enter your property in
their records early. ~
Cut down the prices on residence lots.
There are fifty mechanics in this city
to-day living in rented houses, who
would build houses of their own if they
had the lots to build on.
Assistant Attorney General Sample,
of this city, has been to Kiowa fire.
within the past two weeks, and
there is rumor that he is preparing to
close out the liquor business there.
The newest and latest styles of spring
millinery are now on exhibition at the
rooms of Mrs. Hatton and Stevens,
oyer the store of Byerley, Dark & Run
yam. Call and see them. A
What advantage is it to a town if
halt the lots in the corporation limits
are owned by spectators, who will not
build on the property nor sell at such
prices that any one else can afford to
buy and build? Cut down the prices.
Geo. Ii. Phillips, who lived here five
years ago, and who brought in a bunch
Of Jersey cattle, and spent considera-
BILE money here, died at Lebanon, KY,
about the lst inst. We have heard no
particulars.
KIngman county will vote, May 10th,
on the proposition to subscribe $40, 900
aid to the Rock Island railroad through
that county from northeast to south
west. If the proposition is carried,
Barber county will more than likely
get the same road.
The Baptists of this city have organ
lied, and are making an effort to secure
salary enough to pay a preacher for
half his time. This effort will soon be